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Naval Training School, Division #63, Trainees

Date: 05 19 1945
Description: Group portrait of U.S. Naval Training School (Radio), Division #63, with trainees, and a baby boy in sailor suit sitting in front at center, at the Univers...
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Group Listening to V-E Day Radio Commentary

Date: 05 08 1945
Description: Two women and three men (one in uniform) gathered around a table listening to a radio commentary on V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.
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Ray-O-Vac & RMR Promotion

Date: 03 03 1945
Description: Soldier helping a woman use a Handie Talkie at the Ray-O-Vac & RMR promotional exhibit set up at the Capitol Theatre. "This battery is the heart of the Han...
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Soldier with Walkie-Talkie

Date: 03 09 1945
Description: PFC Harold C. Schreckengost, commanding officer's runner, using a walkie-talkie among the rubble of buildings, directs movements of Company E, 2nd Battalio...
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Man Testing Telegraph Equipment

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Description: A man testing telegraph equipment at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Visit to Clam Lake

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: Project ELF activist Jerry Holter (left) and John Lavine, head of the Lavine Newspaper Groups based in Chippewa Falls, outside the Clam Lake facilities of ...
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Inside Project ELF

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: Captain Charles Biele and an unidentified staffer in the Navy facility at Clam Lake known as Project ELF.
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Inside Project ELF (Alternate View)

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: Captain Charles Biele and an unidentified staffer inside the Navy's facility at Clam Lake known as Project ELF.
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Touring Project ELF

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: Captain Charles Biele (right) and John A. Lavine (next to Biele), Wisconsin newspaper publisher, before Lavine toured the controversial U.S. Navy facility ...
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North Vietnamese Press Conference

Date: 08 22 1967
Description: Press conference held at the International Press Club in Hanoi to announce the destruction and loss of life in the American bombing of Hue Street in a resi...
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FLN Meeting

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian National Liberation Front members conducting a meeting in a tent. The men are sorting through papers and talking. There is a radio beside them.
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Captured Prisoner and Vietnamese Soldiers

Date: 1962
Description: Small group of Vietnamese soldiers stand with a recently captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong on a path in the woods in Vietnam. One soldier is u...
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"Treasures" Shot

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Description: Still life collection of a number of items from The Wisconsin Historical Society Museum collections, including a fur coat, a slot machine, a Tiffany lamp, ...
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Radio Guinea

Date: 02 05 1944
Description: Gordon Williams, of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Stanley J. Quinn of the Mutual Broadcasting System, pose with two indigenous men in front ...
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Civil Defense Alert Test

Date: 04 28 1961
Description: City Civil Defense Director Richard Wilson (left) and two Madison radio announcers take part in a nationwide CONELRAD test as part of the eighth annual "Op...
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Vietnmese Marines with a Radio

Date: 1961
Description: South Vietnamese Marines operating a radio in the field.
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Soldiers Using Radio in Vietnam

Date: 1965
Description: Six soldiers along a roadside in Vietnam. One soldier operates a radio while another writes. Other men sit on the other side of the road, and in the far ba...

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